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Antonio de Montserrat - The Silk Road and the Secret Paths of Tantra

Revista Científica Arbitrada de la Fundación MenteClara
This article presents the biography of Antonio de Montserrat with the aim of situating him within Buddhist critical thought as the first Westerner initiated into tantric philosophy and a key figure in its introduction to the West through the Society of ...
Oscar R. Gomez
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Introduction: Convergences and religious change in Asian religions

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 258-267, August 2025.
Abstract This introduction to the special issue examines various approaches to understanding religious change in Asia. It revisits models for religious change—particularly rupture and repair, both featured in prior TAJA issues—and acknowledges their usefulness while also highlighting their limitations.
Kendall R. Marchman
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Tantric religion and social change

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.
Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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Tantric Futures: Entanglements with Power, Labor, and More‑Than‑Human Worlds

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer
Informed by ethnographic fieldwork with humans, nonhumans, and the materiality of living traditions, this collection encourages comparative analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cross-pollination among scholars of religion and Tantra across ...
Carola E. Lorea, Rohit Singh
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Apartheid Moral Panics, Christian Nationalism & Fake Satanists: Busting the Myth of Occult Crime in South Africa

Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
Tristán Kapp
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Women's Dharma: Parwati Soepangat and Buddhist Feminist Theology in Postcolonial Indonesia*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 423-441, December 2024.
This article uses the life and career of Parwati Soepangat as a case study to shed light on the narrative of Buddhist women in postcolonial Indonesia. It contends that, unlike Theravāda Buddhist‐majority nations in mainland Southeast Asia, Indonesia's lack of a patriarchal monastic authority allowed Buddhist women, like Parwati Soepangat, to emerge ...
Jack Meng‐Tat Chia
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From mandala to flowchart: Managerial governmentality and the evidentiary technologies of Indonesia's Reformasi

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 290-319, August 2024.
Abstract With the dissolution of an authoritarian regime, novel semiotic technologies are mobilized in the service of producing new political imaginaries. Through what visual and discursive practices can “democracy” be made visible? How can “good governance” be convincingly attested?
Aurora Donzelli
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Preparatory Guidelines for Meditation in Pre-Modern Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Traditions

Religions
This study offers a comparative analysis of preparatory practices in Buddhist meditation, focusing on the Tiantai tradition of medieval China and the Nyingma tradition of tenth-century Tibet.
Ching-Hsuan Mei
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Performing anti‐colonial military identities in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment, 1943–1945: War, diasporic women and decolonisation

Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 602-619, July 2024.
Abstract The processes by which diasporic colonised Indian women were constituted as anti‐colonial military subjects offer a valuable corrective to the neglected role of colonised women in the scholarship on decolonisation and war. This article addresses how female officers of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment staged and performed anti‐colonial gendered ...
Shompa Lahiri
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Hindu‐Christian Comparative Theology in a Decolonial Key

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 285-306, April 2024.
Abstract This article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and theologian Jyoti Sahi into conversation with Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nishnaabeg theorist ...
Michelle Voss
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